First Delaminations

Both are laminations, not delaminations.

A delamination is missing the separated metal altogether. If the metal is still there, it's a lamination. Technicality, but corrent nonetheless.

Just doing my share to keep ya on your toes Charles. You can bet it won't happen again.


John, not sure myself, but these are spenders. One is so small and the other is so ugly only Abes mother could love it.

They all are technically errors, but since the mint doesn't inspect every coin for perfection in the planchet, it is very likely that NONE of the laminations minted were caught unless the coin splits in half - and even some of these were not caught.

My best guess as to value for these things would be 50c to a dollar for more minor examples, and up to $2 for those that are blatantly obvious. Of course the coin's initial value would be added in.

There are only two different lamination error types to my knowledge that have nice value. Coins struck on a planchet that splits apart (before or after the strike) can be quite valuable, especially if you have both halfs of the coin. Another more valuable coin would be a delaminated coin with the piece that fell off together. Two separate pieces, but kept together and sold as a single coin.